On the eve of the inauguration of the new Argentine President, Javier Milei, women’s rights defenders are concerned about the future of the law legalizing abortion, adopted in 2020 following an unprecedented mobilization of Argentine women .
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The Argentine green tide is on alert. The ultraliberal Javier Milei, inaugurated president of the Republic of Argentina on Sunday December 10, is a slayer of abortion. The legalization of abortion was obtained in 2020 by a gigantic mobilization network, whose symbol is the green scarf. Three years later, these thousands of Argentine women expect to return to the path of struggle.
Martha Rosenberg, founder of one of the components of the green tide, is not surprised by this desire of the new Argentine president to question the law legalizing abortion: “We never thought that the passing of the law would guarantee the rightshe says. Since the passing of the law, movements have been organized and radicalized to form an opposition., assures the feminist activist. Martha Rosenberg is not very worried either because according to her, “our political capital is capital for popular mobilization”.
The Ministry of Women has just been abolished
Conservative religious movements historically opposed to abortion are today in direct contact with those in power. They have already obtained the abolition of the Ministry of Women. But further damage is expected, warns Mailen, member of a feminist organization: “All our comrades are terrified of what could happen but beyond that, all human rights defenders feel threatened. Milei has carried out very violent attacks against what he calls ‘ the scourge of human rights'”, underlines Mailen.
The law on abortion is one of the texts that Javier Milei intends to modify through a plebiscite to avoid a blockage in Congress.
